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MORNING GLORY: Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary had two winners — but only one was on the ballot

Hasan Piker is now effectively on the general election ballot with Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. If El-Sayed wins, so does Piker

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published August 11, 2026 5:00am EDT

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‘Radical, anti-American’ El-Sayed has much to answer for: Hugh Hewitt

Fox News contributor Hugh Hewitt discusses far-left streamer Hasan Piker campaigning for Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed on ‘One Nation.’

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Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed is Hasan Doğan Piker and Hasan Doğan Piker is Abdulrahman Mohamed El-Sayed.

That’s the bottom line for Michigan voters considering the race for an open United States Senate seat as they prepare for that October-November election. (Early voting in Michigan begins on October 24 and ends November 1, 2026. Election Day is November 3, 2026.)

El-Sayed is the Democratic nominee for Michigan’s open United States Senate seat, and Piker is a progressive Twitch commentator. A particularly vulgar, hate-filled, racist "streamer," an online ranter who hates Blacks, Whites and women of all races with seemingly equal passion. This isn’t a hidden secret. Piker’s calling card is the endless streaming of his unhinged diatribes. I’d recommend searching for his clips on X, formerly known as Twitter, but you don’t really need that sort of unhinged radical ranting in your life. Piker is Robespierre without even a false front of education. 

In a major embarrassment for the El-Sayed campaign, the University of Washington was recently forced to step in and cancel a planned, university-hosted lecture featuring Piker, citing flaws in their approval process. Though the school didn't ban him from campus grounds entirely, stripping him of an official institutional platform shows just how toxic his rhetoric is to mainstream institutions.

CONTROVERSIAL STREAMER HASAN PIKER'S LECTURE AXED BY UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON AMID FREE SPEECH QUESTIONS

El-Sayed attached himself to Piker’s hip in order to win the Michigan Democratic primary (barely)........

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